All perfume samples are authentic fragrances that Surrender to Chance, Topeka, KS, has rebottled into smaller sample and decant sizes, repackaged and distributed. Surrender to Chance has no affiliation, connection or association with the manufacturers or brand owners of the perfumes.
Thin Wild Mercury Chateau, 1970 was released in 2019. Created by Cathleen Cardinali, it has notes of nutmeg, citrus, rose, woods, musk and linen. Thin Wild Mercury Chateau, 1970 is an EDP Eau de Parfum.
From the Brand - "If these walls could walk. Inspired by the end of an era, memories of the 60s were still echoing into the next decade. Led Zeppelin's stay in 1968, Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski's residence until February of 1969, and Jim Morrison's last hurrah in 1970. Your bungalow is adorned with roses, alive and wilting. You are enveloped in crisp hotel linens, dirtied by last night's romp. The vintage furniture's wood smell permeates the room, steam creeps from beneath the bathroom door while your lover showers."
Fragrantica - "Wow, this perfume is absolutely unique and wonderful. I don't really like rose perfumes generally, but here, the rose seems enveloped, a soft background giving way to hints of nutmeg and fresh citrus. This isn't a perfume I would usually buy because of the notes, but I was drawn in by its name and description. Nevertheless, rose usually ends up being the most prominent note in perfumes that include it, and this one doesn't really avoid that, so if you truly hate rose I would tread carefully, but it is more gentle here. The name and reference of this fragrance fits really well, and it does invoke the atmosphere of lounging around in a freshly cleaned hotel room, being rich but not quite, wanting to go to the pool or beach but opting for a drink instead..."
Fragrantica - "I’ve been wearing this almost daily this summer and have grown to love it a lot more. It has the same brightness that Laurel Canyon does that truly lifts your mood. The rose in this smells like a bag of dried pink rose petals."
Fragrantica - "truly brilliant; the best rose fragrance i've ever smelled. the wood note in this is a phenomenon like no other. it's dark and heady, like opening the drawer of a vintage dresser. smells like someone mid-party dousing themselves in rose perfume in front of the armoire to cover a hidden booziness. wasn't my favorite of the collection upon initial testing, but it was the first one i absolutely drained. masterful."
Fragrantica - "This is by far my favorite out of the Los Angeles Collection (I’m a Girl of the Year bitch when it comes to the New York one, FWIW). So, upon getting a full-bottle, I’ve been wearing this every day without fail. Truly a fragrance that goes through distinct stages, TWM is great at that, it starts with a pretty powdery rose. But hang on, because it quickly develops into a spicy, sexy rose—the nutmeg note warms up on the skin, I think—that somehow melds perfectly with musky clean linens and vintage wood. It’s a magnificent, hot girl rose scent that does not lean into old lady territory, nor into jammy fruity Delina/VGG/etc. territory either. I live in West Hollywood and I love imagining Sharon Tate spritzing this on, putting on light makeup and a cotton mini-dress, and trekking from Chateau Marmont to the Sunset Strip. "
Fragrantica - "As someone who loves a spicy rose such as Rose 31 from Le Labo... I adore this. This is a scent that is so nostalgic to me - reminds me of my grandmother (the OG fragrance girlie in my life, a lover of Chanel No. 5 and Obsession by Calvin Klein) who smells primarily of roses, woods and spices. TWM posseses some of the few scents I just KNOW I will be rebuying again and again."
